Nature Geoscience Nature Geoscience is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research papers across all areas of the geosciences. The journal’s content reflects all the disciplines within the geosciences, including studies of the Earth’s climate system, the solid Earth and the planets. Nature Geoscience covers studies based on all the methods used by geoscientists, ranging from field work and numerical modelling on regional and global scales to theoretical studies and remote sensing. Physical, chemical and biological investigations that contribute to our understanding of the Earth system or the planets are all represented. http://feeds.nature.com/ngeo/rss/current Nature Publishing Group en © 2024 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Nature Geoscience © 2024 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. permissions@nature.com Nature Geoscience https://www.nature.com/uploads/product/ngeo/rss.gif http://feeds.nature.com/ngeo/rss/current <![CDATA[Phosphorus’s cosmic courier]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01389-2 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01389-2

Schreibersite is found in meteorites and thought to dwell in planetary cores. Tingting Gu explains how it may also have supported life on the early Earth.]]>
Tingting Gu doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01389-2 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-12; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01389-2 2024-03-12 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01389-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01389-2
<![CDATA[Connecting geology to ecology]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01411-7 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01411-7

Understanding the ecosystem response to global environmental change requires consideration of geological processes, highlighting the interconnected nature of our Earth system.]]>
doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01411-7 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-12; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01411-7 2024-03-12 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01411-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01411-7
<![CDATA[Early Jurassic large igneous province carbon emissions are constrained by sedimentary mercury]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01379-4 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01379-4

The carbon emissions of large igneous province magmatism are commonly associated with severe environmental crises. We developed a technique that used sedimentary mercury records to estimate these carbon fluxes through time and found that they are smaller and/or slower than assumed, which suggests that the influence of carbon-cycle feedback processes is underestimated in current models.]]>
doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01379-4 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-12; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01379-4 2024-03-12 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01379-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01379-4
<![CDATA[Remnants of shifting early Cenozoic Pacific lower mantle flow imaged beneath the Philippine Sea Plate]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01404-6 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01404-6

A record of lower mantle flow from 50 million years ago is preserved in the Pacific region and provides evidence for past lower mantle deformation, according to seismic anisotropy tomography.]]>
Jianke FanDapeng ZhaoCuilin LiLijun LiuDongdong Dong doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01404-6 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-12; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01404-6 2024-03-12 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01404-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01404-6
<![CDATA[Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01388-3 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3

A shift towards more-frequent, less-intense fires in Australia began about 11,000 years ago due to management by Indigenous societies, according to charcoal and stable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon records extending back 150,000 years.]]>
Michael I. BirdMichael BrandRainy ComleyXiao FuXennephone HadeenZenobia JacobsCassandra RoweChristopher M. WursterCostijn ZwartCorey J. A. Bradshaw doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-11; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3 2024-03-11 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01388-3
<![CDATA[Wind-steered Eastern Pathway of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01407-3 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01407-3

About half of the lower limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation flows east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a pathway steered by wind and not bottom topography, according to hydrographic data, reanalysis and model simulations.]]>
Zhengyu LiuSifan GuSijia ZouShaoqing ZhangYangyang YuChengfei He doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01407-3 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-11; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01407-3 2024-03-11 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01407-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01407-3
<![CDATA[Light on dark waters]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01376-7 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 08 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01376-7

Canal networks in Southeast Asian peatlands are zones of rapid, light-driven biogeochemical cycling. The canals increase carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere and decrease organic carbon export to the ocean.]]>
Christopher EvansPierre Taillardat doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01376-7 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-08; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01376-7 2024-03-08 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01376-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01376-7
<![CDATA[Canal networks regulate aquatic losses of carbon from degraded tropical peatlands]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01383-8 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 08 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01383-8

Canal networks are a hotspot for the loss of carbon from tropical peatlands following disturbance, according to measurements of oxidation rates for dissolved organic carbon to carbon dioxide in drainage canals in Southeast Asia.]]>
Jennifer C. BowenPutri J. WahyudioGusti Z. AnshariLihini I. AluwihareAlison M. Hoyt doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01383-8 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 2024-03-08; | doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01383-8 2024-03-08 Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-024-01383-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01383-8